CFN – A regional effort has led to charges in various cities including Cornwall where a CBSA officer was arrested last Friday. (details to follow as more information rolls out)

The KPS just released the following:

From the Kingston Police Department.

As a member of the Provincial Strategy to Protect Children from Sexual Abuse and

Exploitation on the Internet Kingston Police I.C.E. (Internet Child Exploitation) detectives have recently arrested and charged two local Kingston residents.

After a lengthy investigation involving two production orders, two law enforcement requests and four search warrants arrests were made in the city this week. Evidence seized included three laptops, one hard drive and one iPad.

On September 23rd Michael A. CARON, 38-years-old, was arrested and charged with Accessing Child Pornography, two counts of Possession of Child Pornography, and Making Available Child Pornography.

On September 24th Nathaniel CLARK, 24-years-old, was arrested and charged with two counts each of Accessing Child Pornography, Possession of Child Pornography and Making Available Child Pornography.

Both accused were released on a Promise To Appear with future court dates and are on numerous conditions to protect the public, specifically children.

For a larger understanding of the provincial strategy scope please the release from the Ontario Provincial Police website:

“A total of 99 search warrants were executed, resulting in 249 charges against 60 persons, including three youths who cannot be identified under terms of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Charges include Sexual Assault, Possession of Child Pornography, Make Available Child Pornography, Distribution of Child Pornography, Making Child Pornography, and Accessing Child Pornography. Quantities of drugs and prohibited weapons were also seized during the operations. In addition, 14 child victims have been identified during the investigation. Police displayed an animated map depicting more than 7,000 individual Internet Protocol (or IP) addresses over a period of 180 days that had been identified as download candidates for suspected child pornography in various urban and rural communities.

From its inception in August 2006 to August 2014 – not including this week’s activities – the Provincial Strategy has completed 23,581 investigations and laid 8,750 charges against 2,617 people. During that period, 534 child victims have been identified and rescued in Ontario. Another 51 child victims were identified from outside of Ontario.

Members of the OPP Child Sexual Exploitation Unit (CSEU) also took the opportunity to encourage children, teens, parents and guardians to proactively increase their own awareness of online safety issues.”

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I just browsed the FB friends of one of the accused, and man, talk about the underbelly… (even if this doesn’t get posted) you’ve got to check it out. One of those friends has about 200 kids and young adults — from Thailand, Philipines, etc) as his “friends”.

Surely, their family members and others should find this weird… and if not, hmmmm.